5 reasons why AEW's Orange Cassidy is awesome

#3 He understands ring psychology better than you'd think

Orange Cassidy in his AEW debut

One of the neat things about the character of Orange Cassidy is that, behind that slacker attitude, there lies a really fantastic wrestler.

Chuck Taylor threw out a pretty funny line on the final episode of Dynamite before the Revolution pay-per-view when he warned Cassidy's opponent for the event, PAC, that for this match, "he's gonna try!" Taylor's tag team partner (and Best Friend) Trent Barretta made sure to interject and make sure that everybody knew that Cassidy didn't actually tell them that, and that Taylor doesn't speak for the Freshly Squeezed one, saying "he may try, he may not."

The match with PAC was Cassidy's first singles contest in AEW, but it's not as if the fans hadn't seen him in action before - and I'm not just talking the weak-sauce kicks he first displayed during his surprise appearance at the Buy-In battle royale at Double Or Nothing. He's taken to the air plenty of times - hands still in pockets, of course - to take out members of the Dark Order, just to name one example.

During last night's match, however, when PAC started laying the punishment on thick, the wrestler in Cassidy came plowing through. Jump ahead to the 5:00 mark in this video (or just watch the whole thing, I don't care) and you'll see what we mean.

Fans get so used to the slacker, laid back, simply lethargic Cassidy (who they love, in part, because the character is so hilarious) that they lose their minds when he actually starts to... well, for lack of a better word... try. That, my friends, is great ring psychology - playing with the crowd's expectations and telling an amazing story in the ring.

What originally came across as an indie-level comedy act has turned into a full-fledged character that has the potential to be one of the faces of the entire company.